Direct file transfer via browser with no server involvement
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#2Needs vetting. Open-source?
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#3What's happening behind the scenes? Without knowing that it's hard to take the claim of 'no server involvement' at face value.
Does the sender have to be up for the receiever to receive?
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#4Minified and obfuscated so it's hard to tell what's going on in this but it looks like it uses WebRTC to do peer-to-peer transfers, with the aid of a STUN server to establish the initial connection.
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#5What's happening behind the scenes? Without knowing that it's hard to take the claim of 'no server involvement' at face value. Does the sender have to be up for the receiever to receive?
It seems to use WebRTC. Sender have to be up.
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#6I have no idea what's behind the scenes, but was surprised that such small Javascript can do this trick.
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#7> Your browser is not supported, consider downloading Chrome.
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#8Seems to be using WebRTC, so presumably it's using STUN servers to do the NAT hole-punching. So not really "no server involvement". But I suppose that would be basically impossible on today's internet.
Hopefully it's not also using TURN servers if STUN fails...
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#9Alternatively, using the same technology: https://www.sharedrop.io/ and actually multiple others. Quite convincing to transfer files between devices in LAN, instead of looking for USB cable to connect the phone or trying to establish (never working and much slower) Bluetooth connection.
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#10Looks like a nice POC. Is there a practical reason why this website isn't using HTTPS?